Application for the Palantir Private Preview Program


Please fill out this application accurately and completely. All applications are subject to review, and no membership guarantee is implied by your application. If your application for membership is accepted, you will be required to sign and return a completed Non-Disclosure Agreement.  Because we cannot accept proxy signatures for the NDA, applicants must be 18+ years of age.

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* 1. Please provide your first and last name.

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* 2. Please provide the email address registered to your game account.
These emails must match.  If you wish to use a different email address to apply to Palantir you must first update your email at https://myaccount.standingstonegames.com/

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* 3. Please provide your game account Username:
This is the name you enter when logging into the game launcher or your account page at https://myaccount.standingstonegames.com

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* 4. (Optional) Please provide your Subscription Nickname.
Only necessary for accounts with more than one subscription attached.

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* 5. Please provide us with your Forum Display Name.
This is the name that displays in the upper right of the LOTRO Forums after you have logged in, and the name that displays when you make a post. This name is NOT the same as your Account/User name. Failing to provide the proper name may remove your application from consideration.

NOTE: You need a forum account in order to participate in the Palantir Private Preview Program. If you need to create a forum account for your game account, please log into lotro.com using your game account credentials, and you will be prompted to create a forum display name.

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* 6. Please provide us with the names of at least two of your characters, and the servers on which they reside.
If you do not have more than one character, simply indicate that after providing the name and server for your one character.

We would like to know more about why you are interested in being a member of Palantir. We will also use your answers in the following questions to provide us with a writing sample to get a better sense of your ability to provide quality feedback.

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* 7. In the previous six months, which of these systems have you engaged in to a meaningful extent:

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* 8. List a few aspects of The Lord of the Rings Online you are most excited to provide feedback about, and why are those things important to you?

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* 9. What do you think the Palantir Private Preview Program is about?
If you are a returning member, please provide us with more information about your experience in the past, and what you would like to see us do to improve the program.

If you are accepted into the Palantir Private Preview program, you will be required to agree to and abide by our Non-Disclosure Agreement. This is a legally-binding agreement, and should be thoroughly read and understood by you prior to agreeing to it. This NDA allows us to have more detailed development discussions with members of Palantir, and allows you to provide us with feedback in a semi-private forum without fear of outside interference.

The Palantir NDA will be agreed to when you first log into the Palantir game client. Additionally, please read the NDA now:

Your acceptance of the NDA is a binding contract to follow the terms listed within. Non-compliance will result in your removal from the Palantir Preview Program, and potentially other disciplinary actions being taken against your game account(s). 

PALANTIR PREVIEW PROGRAM

Last Updated on June 14, 2018

Your participation in the Palantir Preview Program (“Preview Program”) is purely voluntary and subject to the non-disclosure agreement and terms and conditions below. Please note that you will not be compensated for your participation in the Preview Program. As a consumer tester, you are invited to preview the applicable videogame to provide customer feedback on various topics. To be eligible to volunteer for the Preview Program, you must meet all three (3) of the following requirements: (i) you are not a principal, agent, or employee of a company that is a publisher, distributer, manufacturer, or developer of video games (other than Standing Stone Games, its parent, and affiliates); (ii) you are not a member of the press; and (iii) you are at least 18 years of age or older. If you do not meet all three requirements you may not volunteer for the Preview Program and must refrain from using the Preview Game client.
The Preview Program is provided to you on an “As Is” and “As Available” basis and Standing Stone Games makes no warranty to you of any kind, express or implied. Playing on the Palantir server and participating in the Preview Program is at your own risk and you acknowledge (i) that the content will contain known and unknown bugs and an unfinished gameplay experience and (ii) Standing Stone Games periodically wipes all data from these servers between tests and at other times, as testing requires. There are no refunds of any lost points, items, or upgrades.

Confidentiality and Terms and Conditions: As a volunteer for the Preview Program, you will have access to non-public information concerning Standing Stone Games videogame(s) (“Confidential Information”). By volunteering for the Preview Program you agree to maintain the confidential nature of all Confidential Information received. You agree to maintain all Confidential Information in strict confidence, and you will only discuss Confidential Information within the Preview Program, or on the Preview Program’s discussion boards located here: https://www.lotro.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?798-Palantir-Test-Group
By volunteering for the Preview Program and agreement to these terms and conditions, and in consideration for Standing Stone Games’ review of the feedback, materials and content you submit in connection with your participation (the “Feedback”), you hereby grant Standing Stone Games a worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, sublicenseable (through multiple tiers), royalty-free, fully-paid up, perpetual, irrevocable right and license to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform (whether publicly or otherwise), adapt (including, without limitation, the rights to edit, modify, translate, and reformat), create derivative works of, transmit, make, have made, sell, offer to sell, import and otherwise use and exploit (and have others exercise such rights on behalf of Standing Stone Games) the Feedback, for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, in any media now known or hereafter developed, without compensation or credit. To the extent permitted by applicable laws, you also give up any claim that any use by Standing Stone Games of the Feedback violates any of your rights, including but not limited to moral rights, privacy rights, rights to publicity, proprietary or other rights, and/or rights to credit for the material or ideas set forth therein. Moreover, you represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary for you to grant the foregoing license. You further irrevocably waive any “moral rights” or other rights with respect to attribution of authorship or integrity of materials regarding each Feedback that you may have under any applicable law under any legal theory as well as any and all other claims that any use of the Feedback by or on behalf of Standing Stone Games violates any of your other rights, including but not limited to, privacy, publicity, proprietary, intellectual property and/or other rights. For purposes of clarity, you retain all other intellectual property rights that you may have in your Feedback, subject to the license and rights granted above.

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Thank you for your application! If your application to be a member of the Palantir Private Preview Program is accepted, we will contact you through the email address linked to your game account. Please assure the email address linked to your game account is accurate.  You can confirm/update it through myaccount.standingstonegames.com.

<div style="text-align: left;">Thank you for your application! If your application to be a member of the Palantir Private Preview Program is accepted, we will contact you through the email address linked to your game account. Please assure the email address linked to your game account is accurate.  You can confirm/update it through <span style="color: #ffff99;"><a href="myaccount.standingstonegames.com" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ffff99;" target="_blank">myaccount.standingstonegames.com</a></span>.</div>

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* 10. Please acknowledge that you are 18+, have read the NDA, and select ONE of the following:

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